2. A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) The framing on which a bell is suspended. [ 1913 Webster ]

The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every elf, and fairy sprite,
Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elf arrow, a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. --
Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. --
Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. --
Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elf all my hair in knots. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself. [ 1913 Webster ]

By herself, alone; apart; unaccompanied. [ 1913 Webster ]

But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam. xx. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Is. vii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

With shame remembers, while himself was one
Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him. [ 1913 Webster ]

It comprehendeth in himself all good. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. --
To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.

Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Immunology) Any material that enters the body and is not recognized by the immune system as being part of its body, thereby triggering an immune response; any material appearing to the immune system to be foreign to its body. [ PJC ]

One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self = one's self. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personification; embodiment. [ Poetic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She was beauty's self. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. “Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.” John iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-deception; delusion. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution. [ 1913 Webster ]